Recording available – Research Seminar “Labour Migration and the Legal Boundaries of Exploitation”

For those who missed it, and for those who want to listen to it again, the recording of our latest E-BoP seminar “Labour Migration and the Legal Boundaries of Exploitation” is now available. Many thanks once again to our speakers, Judy Fudge, Mireia Llobera Vila and Catharina Lopes Scodro for their presentations, as well as […]
E-BoP’s Audrey Deverson successfully defended her PhD thesis

One of the members of the E-BoP team, Audrey Deverson, successfully defended her PhD thesis on 16 March 2026. Her PhD thesis is titled “Access to Social Rights for Temporary Labour Migrant Women in the EU: An Intersectional Perspective on Seasonal and Posted Workers in France and Spain” and the manuscript will be available in […]
Research Seminar “Labour Migration and the Legal Boundaries of Exploitation” – 17 March 2026

The E-BoP team is pleased to announce our next hybrid research seminar, “Labour Migration and the Legal Boundaries of Exploitation.” The event will take place in Strasbourg and online (Zoom) on 17 March 2026, from 10AM to noon (CET). This seminar brings together leading scholars to reflect on how European legal frameworks define the line […]
E-BoP at the Workshop “Work & Society: The Contribution of Labour Law – A Conversation with Adelle Blackett”

On 6 February, the E-BoP team took part in the workshop Work & Society: The Contribution of Labour Law – A Conversation with Adelle Blackett, hosted by the labour law team of the UMR 7354 DRES (CNRS – University of Strasbourg) and co-organised by Mélanie Schmitt and Marco Rocca, our PI. Organised to mark the […]
The E-BoP Summer School (2nd edition) call opens today!

The whole E-BoP team is thrilled to announce the opening of the call for participants for the second edition of our Summer School! Again, our Summer School will focus on Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the legal regulation of labour migration and will feature a great lineup of speakers with direct experience in applying […]
E-BoP Summer School 2nd Edition: Save the Date!
The European Birds of Passage team is organising the second edition of our Summer School on “Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the legal regulation of labour migration” (6-9 July 2026, Strasbourg). Join us for 3 days of lectures, practical workshops, discussions, and feedback! The full call will be launched in a month-ish, with a […]
(Video) The E-BoP team at the ILO: Temporary Labour Migration in Europe seminar

On 28 October 2025 the E-BoP team was at the International Labor Organization in Geneva to present our preliminary findings in a hybrid seminar entitled Temporary Labour Migration in Europe. We presented four contributions which drew on the mix of empirical legal, comparative, and economic perspectives, which characterises our project: The full recording of the […]
Upcoming E-BoP Research Seminar at ILO Geneva: Temporary Labour Migration in Europe

We are happy to announce that the European Birds of Passage team will be hosted by the International Labour Organization in Geneva on 28 October 2025 (1PM – 3PM CEST) for a hybrid seminar on the theme Temporary Labour Migration in Europe The seminar will present the preliminary findings of our project and engage with […]
Our PI at the Symposium on Precarities and Temporalities in Migratory Contexts

On 26 and 27 August 2025 our PI, Marco Rocca, participated to the Symposium on Precarities and Temporalities in Migratory Contexts. The Symposium was organised at the University of Helsinki by the Tackling precarious and informal work in the Nordic countries research project and the Migration, care and ageing –research group of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing […]
Where do posted workers come from and move to?

by Daniel. J Elanga Mendogo Definition Based on the 2023 data from Portable Documents A1 (PDs A1), this diagram illustrates the movement of posted workers between EU/EFTA countries and the UK. A PD A1 establishes that the holder is registered with the social security system of the issuing country and exempts them and/or their employer […]